Authors: Joseph Campbell, Marija Gimbutas, Riane Eisler, Charles Musès
Publisher: Astrolabio Ubaldini
Year edition: 1992
Format: Paperback
Pages of the printed version: 164 p.
EAN: 9788834010778
€ 14,00
The symbols of birth, death and resurrection and the rituals of fertility and propitiation that are found in every society are the last vestiges of a cult that flourished at the dawn of civilization especially in the Mediterranean basin: the cult of the Great Goddess. Venerated and invoked with different names from nation to nation, the Goddess always embodied the Mother from whose womb every form of life springs and to whom she returns upon death to be reborn again, as in the eternal cycle of vegetation. Only with the emergence of the patriarchal society did the figure of the unique male god, creator and source of the universe, emerge. This book offers a reconstruction of the ancient female deity in all her names, identifying her presence and symbology in the myths and forms that have survived even in contemporary religions, in a very dense picture of mythological and anthropological data that places the Goddess on her throne of Great Mother of all life.
